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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1941
Page
3
Virginia foresters urge landowners to thin young stands and remove defective trees while markets for pulpwood and mine prices rise. They warn against cutting trees under 12 inches and note that selling by the thousand feet with a written contract avoids disputes, while boundary sales yield lump sums.
Delegates from 5179 congregations with 1 392 404 baptized souls gather June 18 to 28 in Fort Wayne Indiana for the 38th National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri Ohio and Other States A program outlines plans for missionary expansion in the United States Canada Central and South America Asia Africa and Europe and includes church college standards unity proposals pension reform education and the Lutheran Army and Navy Commission.
A historical overview explains the Spanish American War including causes and key events from 1898. It covers Weyler’s camps, Cuban suffering, the Maine explosion, McKinley’s efforts, the Naval Board findings, Cuba independence, and the April 1898 mobilization orders for 125000 volunteers and three new infantry regiments.
Item mixes celebrity rumor with World War II era reporting. Dorothy Lamour and attorney Gregson Bautzer indicate they would not wed in Hawaii but do not rule out marriage elsewhere while detailing Bautzer as Lamour's longtime escort. The piece then shifts to military dispatches and enlistment notices from Winchester and the 2nd regiment amid the Spanish American War context.
A stubborn blaze at Frozen Foods Inc on West Bruce street caused about 30000 dollars in damage to the plant and its refrigerated lockers. Ammonia fumes and thick smoke hampered firefighters for three hours while life of the contents is covered by insurance. some lockers may be salvageable.
Norfolk reports May coal dumpings across three Hampton Roads terminals totalled 1,445,867 tons, down about 125,000 from a year earlier. May output rose over April due to the prior strike, with Norfolk and Western pier at 519,097 tons, Virginian Railway 470,939, and Chesapeake and Ohio pier at Newport News 455,831.
Stephens College student Faye Branson of Columbia Missouri has been selected Miss Oleander for the tenth Oleander festival in Galveston Texas. The event features pageantry parades and bathing and beauty contests.
Senator Byrd asserts that only a minimal amount of lend-lease equipment has reached Great Britain in the seven weeks since the $7 billion aid appropriation. He cites Maj. Gen. Burns’s letter and warns that production delays and strikes hinder timely delivery of heavy tanks and other essential weapons to Britain.
The piece notes the United States flag’s 164th anniversary on June 14 since its 1777 adoption. It describes flag-raising routines by Marines and soldiers worldwide, with flag ceremonies from the eastern seaboard to Europe and the Pacific, and the flag remaining aloft from dawn until sunset.
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